Body Battery goes down to 5% almost on a daily basis. I do a "soft reset" almost everyday. I can see this happens to many customers over the last few months. This is quite frankly amazing that neither a "fix" or an explanation has be

Have you chatted with Garmin directly about this?  

My body battery generally works fine, although every once in a while (maybe once per week at most) I find that it "hangs" for a period at a certain level.  Forgive me if you already know this, but the body battery is based on what the watch is reading for "stress level" so if the watch thinks that you have high stress levels all the time then it will rapidly decrease.

Out of curiosity, how is the heart rate monitoring working for you?  The stress level is based on HRV which of course relies on the optical heart rate working well for you.

If you haven't already, I would suggest you reach out to Garmin support, even if by chat. I have found that they have been helpful in trying to duplicate exactly what I am doing, and they may be able to look at certain files and data on your watch to help identify where the issue might be.

Thanks for this info.  It is helpful.  I will reach out to Garmin again.  Thanks again.

I can see this happens to many customers over the last few months

So why start a new thread? Have you tried all the suggestions from those other posts?

I was hoping that I could get a response that actually explains why this is happening, either software or hardware.  I found absolutely no answer as to why this is happening.  On the other threads there is only suggestions of "soft resets' daily.  Really not a solution.  

Ive seen this since i biught it in nov. Gets down to 5% and flatlines and holds at 5%. It does up eith sleep thought.  Never reported it as i figures garmin wouldnt do anything about this bug. Too many things are not reliable on this watch from my experience, and i trust none. Sleep for instance is allover the place with no logical or imperical reason i could find from adjustments. But i digress. 

And that's why the other threads also suggest contacting Garmin Support, which you now appear to have done. As noted, the root cause is likely to be something to do with your heart rate monitoring.

I would have thought the reason is the soft-reset. Why are you doing this? 

The other threads on this subject suggest performing a "soft reset" to get the Body Battery to work again.  So every time the Body Battery stops working (almost on a daily basis) I perform the "soft reset" to get it working....

This soft reset you do is actually a hard reset - press and hold top left until the watch powers off. In doing so you lose all activity tracking information that has not been synchronised to GCM. Do you make sure you synchronise first?